Annal:2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
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Results of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Selected Poems: Selected Poems
- 2001 Lenore Marshall winner
- 2001 Griffin International shortlist
- Score: 16.51
One of the best and most respected experimental poets in the United States, Fanny Howe has published more than twenty books, mostly with small presses, and this publication of her selected poems is a major event.
Howe’s theme is the exile of the spirit in this world and the painfully exciting, tiny margin in which movement out of exile is imaginable and perhaps possible. Her best poems are simultaneously investigations of that possibility and protests against the difficulty of salvation.
Boston is the setting of some of the early poems, and Ireland, the…
